Linux

xterm. It emulates a terminal. What else would I want a terminal emulator to do?

On regular desktop environments I really like Guake - it’s a drop down terminal emulator similar to how old games used to do it. It’s nice for quick use here and there. Though these days I just run tilling wm with xfce-terminal. It gets the job done and still looks good.

Boring answer, but I just use gnome-terminal with a nord theme. I also remove the menu and scroll bars, and add some internal padding.

The only other thing I do, is I use tdrop so I can have a "scratchpad" or dropdown terminal that I can toggle with gnome-terminal.

Do any terminal emulators on Linux implement the tmux control protocol, i.e. tmux -cc?

I use this with iTerm2 on macOS to turn tmux windows into native tabs, and to integrate with the native scroll back buffer.

I really miss this feature on Linux.

I use WezTerm. It comes with great defaults imo.

Depends what I'm doing, where and how. I do use tmux everywhere though but at home xfce-terminal, At work I tend to use terminator for the wonders of group control but if connecting from a windows pc i'll be on windows-terminal.

For shell I try to use zsh everywhere with p10k and omz.

I always liked Terminator because of the easy splitscreening.

Whatever comes with the DE. I don't use it enough to have a favorite.

Konsole and gnome shell, super lame but I haven't had any trouble with them. Ftlog mintty on windows since it comes with git. I have a terrible time with the windows console

I don't really have a preference for a specific TE. As long as the default background is black. And not something close to black but not quite. And as long as Ctrl-Shift-V is paste.

Don't matter much as long as I got tmux

Unless there's a Linux tty that supports -CC, like iterm2 for macOS.

st all the way. Quick to launch and it works well

LXTerminal.

I don't know if increasing the font size counts as customization. I've got old, tired eyes.

Transparency is also turned on, which I think I did with compton. It was a long time ago and seems to persist through Debian's dist upgrades.

It's worth adding that the entire LXDE suite is great software. It just works. I hope I don't have to give it up any time soon.

Guake and only really customized by setting infinite scroll and tweaked transparency. I jump in and out of the terminal all the time, so it's perfect for me. Plus F12 for terminal is old muscle memory from RISCOS.

Used to use Terminator on Cinnamon, but now I use Konsole with bindings to split horizontally and vertically on Plasma.

Sakura. Simple and fast.

Konsole because it does everything I need it to and naturally integrates with Dolphin, which is something I like a lot. (F4 may be my most pressed Fn key thanks to this.)

As for customization, switched from bash to fish and use some fisher plugins for added convenience, along with the Tide prompt. I still use bash for some scripts, but that's about the extent of it.

Also, I use a light theme, so feel free to crucify me.

I've used xterm, rxvt, kitty, and now alacritty. I like alacritty because it's fast and simple. The only thing I don't like is that the default color scheme is off. If you run tmux in something like xterm, the bar is green. But in the default alacritty, it looks more yellow.

So I have this in my ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml:

# XTerm's default colors
colors:
   # Default colors
   primary:
     background: '#000000'
     foreground: '#d8d8d8'
   # Normal colors
   normal:
     black:   '#000000'
     red:     '#cd0000'
     green:   '#00cd00'
     yellow:  '#cdcd00'
     blue:    '#0000ee'
     magenta: '#cd00cd'
     cyan:    '#00cdcd'
     white:   '#e5e5e5'

   # Bright colors
   bright:
     black:   '#7f7f7f'
     red:     '#ff0000'
     green:   '#00ff00'
     yellow:  '#ffff00'
     blue:    '#5c5cff'
     magenta: '#ff00ff'
     cyan:    '#00ffff'
     white:   '#ffffff'

I use both WezTerm and Kitty, they are both great with customization. You can see my config in dotfiles here https://github.com/haunt98/dotfiles